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- ↑ "Inconvenient Indian".
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- ↑ "Off the Streets and into the Fortress: Experiments in Hip Separatism at Toronto's Rochdale College, 1968–1975", Canadian Historical Review
- ↑ "All Pink and Clean and Full of Wonder? Gendering Joni Mitchell, 1966-74", Left History:
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